Politics > Politics-USA > Confederate flag draws protest: Civil War buff takes it down to avoid trouble
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"J Young" |
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10 Feb 2006 11:11:35 PM |
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Confederate flag draws protest: Civil War buff takes it down to avoid trouble |
Hypocricy, thy name is "liberal".
http://www.patriotledger.com/articles/2006/02/07/news/news02.txt
Confederate flag draws protest: Hingham Civil War buff takes it down to
avoid trouble after someone lodges complaint
HINGHAM - A Hingham man has removed a Confederate flag he had been flying
outside his downtown home after police told him they had received a
complaint about it.
Ian Emmott, 22, a Civil War buff since age 12 who had been displaying the
flag since October, decided to take the banner inside to avoid any trouble
after two police officers, one of them his older brother, came to his home
to tell him about the complaint.
''I had a feeling this would happen; that someone would cause a stink and
people would take it the wrong way,'' said Emmott, who believes the flag
represents the South's heritage - not racism.
''Some people use it as a racist symbol, but that is not what it represents.
I have friends of all different races. I put it up partly to make a point. I
don't like it being used as a mark of racism.''
Winston Hall, the town historian and a native of South Carolina, said Emmott
's view of the Confederate flag as a piece of national heritage has
validity.
Stressing that she was speaking personally and not as town historian, Hall,
92, said that in the North, the Confederate flag is not viewed as symbol of
white supremacy, but it is still taken as that in the Deep South.
''That interpretation (of racism) in the Deep South is a mistake,'' Hall
said. ''That is what some people have made it into, but I don't think an
educated person sees it that way.''
At the time of the Civil War, 1861 to 1865, Hall said, the Confederate flag
symbolized states' rights ''and whether the federal government had the right
to impose its laws on the states. The Civil War settled that once and for
all - the federal law is the law of the land.''
There is no federal law prohibiting the flying of the Confederate flag.
The Anti-Defamation League web site says that although the Confederate flag
is seen by some Southerners simply as a symbol of Southern pride, it is
often used by racists to represent white domination of black Americans.
Mitch Marcus, co-chairman of Hingham's No Place for Hate Committee with his
wife, Barbara, spoke with police Monday and was told the complaint was from
a black resident.
''Some individuals might be unaware of what it represents to others,''
Marcus said. ''The vast majority see it as a sign of hate - almost like the
swastika to someone who is Jewish.''
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"Honesty, Integrity, Compassion, and Decency"
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| User: "Lumpy Rutherford" |
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| Title: Re: Confederate flag draws protest: Civil War buff takes it down to avoid trouble |
11 Feb 2006 07:16:51 PM |
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"J Young" <youngopinions@aol.com> wrote in message
news:h8OdnaXEyoaO73DeRVn-gg@giganews.com...
Hypocricy, thy name is "liberal".
http://www.patriotledger.com/articles/2006/02/07/news/news02.txt
Confederate flag draws protest: Hingham Civil War buff takes it down to
avoid trouble after someone lodges complaint
HINGHAM - A Hingham man has removed a Confederate flag he had been flying
outside his downtown home after police told him they had received a
complaint about it.
Ian Emmott, 22, a Civil War buff since age 12 who had been displaying the
flag since October, decided to take the banner inside to avoid any trouble
after two police officers, one of them his older brother, came to his home
to tell him about the complaint.
''I had a feeling this would happen; that someone would cause a stink and
people would take it the wrong way,'' said Emmott, who believes the flag
represents the South's heritage - not racism.
Tell that to the Klan, they made a point of riding with it as a banner of
white supremacy while creating terrorism across the south against blacks.
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| User: "Parsifal" |
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| Title: Re: Confederate flag draws protest: Civil War buff takes it down to avoid trouble |
11 Feb 2006 03:04:37 AM |
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*Hypocricy, thy name is "liberal".
No: Hypocrisy, thy name is J "nazi turd" Young.
What would you be your reaction if I was publishing jokes about the
3000 victims of 9/11? Praising the fanatics who caused it? Joking about
the American soldier whose dead body was dragged in the streets of
Somalia? About Pearl Harbour? About the thousands of Americans who died
in Vietnam? About the ones dying (for what?) in Iraq?
Why are you ALWAYS on the side of nazis, holocaust-deniers, racists,
homophobes? Why can't you be JUST ONCE on the side of decency? Why is
your ideal of justice always appproving oppressors? Why are you
systematically against jews, muslims, African-Americans, gays, women?
Why do you hate yourself so much? What happened to you to become such a
revolting piece of *****? Do you have friends? A loved-one?
Ask yourself these questions instead of sending your usual revolting
trash, nazi turd...
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